Ashes or Bones

In a astronomer's lab a giant telescope points out of a stone arch window at the moon. There's is a blackboard and a large globe, and in a high back chair sits the astronomer, dressed like a wizard including a pointed hat. A puff of smoke is disappearing and a figure in black with a horned black mask can also be seen, looking at the astronomer.

The astronomer is moving frantically around in his lab, his chair to the right of frame. From a balcony window, we can see the moon with a face, including a wide open mouth, hanging in the darkness. The moon appears somewhat unnerving.

The same setting only now the moon is inside the room, hovering. It has large eyes and arched eyebrows, and a mouth open in a bloody sort of grin. In front of it, on the floor, is part of the remains of the astronomer it has just eaten and spat out.

Back to the organisation lab set up, where everything looks normal again and the moon is back to hovering in the night sky, no face, far away. The astronomer is resting on their desk and appears to be sleeping.

La Lune à un mètre (The Astronomer's Dream, 1898, dir. Georges Méliès) 🎥

A melancholy, effectively creepy three minutes in which the moon eats people.

Bjork reviewing Kate Bush’s Sensual World. “I used to be a big Kate Bush fan when I was about 12, when her first record came out. But I was really disappointed with Hounds of Love. It’s not enough really to just listen to it once. I like it.” (Four stars)

My favorite Kate Bush track

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It’s quite the tell, sadly

"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff

Chocobos in the wild 🐦

- Final Fantasy 4 (SNES)

Marquee for and from The Guy Who Plays Mr. Belvedere Fan Club, perhaps the best SNL sketch ever

Homer smoking cigs

The CEO and their vassal

Once again, the thing that no one really wants to say out loud is that NATO is already at war with 🇷🇺

Solidarity with Matt. Hack the Planet

How about the classic “His name was literally Bernie Madoff”

Shout out to Nuzzi’s editors at all those prestigious publications because holy shit is she an awful writer.

Maybe some clemency given the opener has a hurdy gurdy? (I’ve never actually seen any episodes)

“Placing my head under the guillotine for this but stories are not allowed to edge, we must press forward to climax”

There’s a lot of dumb shit in this post but there is nothing ambiguous about the ending of No Country.

dumb skyrim horse

true terror is to wake up one morning and discover your old tweeting class is running the discourse

That cop just lowkey hates the Welsh

1943 maybe lol

Avatar doesn’t have a fandom. The movies make 2 billion dollars each and no one cares. You go to any nerd convention and you’ll see a dozen, gender swapped, steam punk Boba Fetts before you see one mutant blue alien or whatever they are. No rizz.

I used to live in St George (2 hr drive from LV) so FO:NV is always a nostalgia trip

The story should have ended with the city mouse telling the country mouse to stop being such a bigot and a tightass

Gilda the robobrain making sexual advances toward the Soul Survivor. “Keep it up, Tiger, and we’ll find out if you can handle how much woman I am.”

Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.

Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.

One lukewarm comfort I’ve found as an ADHD person in an ADHD-hostile society is that social media has turned everyone’s attention span into mush and now I’m well-placed to empathize with everyone

They literally don't do that. I'm not a doctor but I've gotten quite a few MRIs and one time I asked my doc if I should get a preventative MRI and he says they don't do that ever

They send your head through a carousel and will wreck your south pacific